The club has won twelve league titles and five Austrian Cups , all five of which came as doubles. It reached the Austrian top flight in , [2] and finished 9th of 14 clubs in its first season there, avoiding relegation by five points.

The team often remained referred to as SV Austria Salzburg. Despite drawing both matches with Ajax, Salzburg picked up a solitary 3—1 win away in Athens and were eliminated in third place.

The club moved to its current stadium in The Red Bull company purchased the club on 6 April and rebranded it. Red Bull initially claimed on the club website that the club was founded in , but was ordered to remove this claim by the Austrian Football Association.

The traditional supporters tried to resist the radical changes and formed their own movement in order to regain some of the tradition. Several fan-clubs throughout Europe voiced their support in what they saw as a fight against the growing commercialisation of football.

However, after five months of protests and talks between the club owners and traditional fans, no compromise was reached. On 15 September , the "violet" supporters stated that the talks had irreversibly broken down and efforts to reach an agreement would be terminated.

This gave rise to two separate fan groups: The pair initially denied having reached a deal, but officially signed on 23 May On 13 February , Giovanni Trapattoni confirmed that he would be taking over as the new Republic of Ireland national team manager in May.

In his final season, the club finished as runners-up, six points behind champions Rapid Wien. His successor was Huub Stevens.

Stevens was replaced by Dutchman Ricardo Moniz at the end of the —11 season, in which Red Bull were denied a third consecutive title by Sturm Graz, who won the league by a three-point margin.

Moniz was ordered to integrate young players from the Junior squad: In the —12 season, Red Bull won the Bundesliga league title and Cup double.

After the —12 season, Moniz departed his post despite having a year remaining on his contract. In July , Red Bull were knocked out of the Champions League in the second qualifying round against F91 Dudelange of Luxembourg, losing the first leg 1—0 away, followed by a 4—3 home win which saw the club eliminated on away goals.

After that, the team was changed fundamentally. At the end of the transfer period, new players were purchased: In the —13 season, the team finished second in the league, behind champions Austria Wien.

They recaptured the league title the following season with an point margin over the runners-up. Also, in the —15 season, they won both the Bundesliga and the cup as they did again in the season.

In December the coach Peter Zeidler was dismissed and replaced for the last two matches in the first half of the season by Thomas Letsch.

Also in the next season Salzburg won both the Bundesliga and the cup. In Salzburg lost the cupfinal against Sturm Graz.

This season was the most successful in history. In , Red Bull bought an amateur club in Leipzig , Germany and re-named them RasenBallsport Leipzig so named to circumvent local rules on corporate naming rules with the aim of establishing a leading branded team in that country [26] [27] in a similar mould to its existing franchises in Salzburg and other locations.

Having finished as runners-up in their debut season in the German top flight, RB Leipzig gained entry to continental football for the first time, specifically the —18 UEFA Champions League for which Red Bull Salzburg had also qualified as Austrian champions ; this raised the issue of a possible conflict of interest between the clubs due to the level of influence exerted by Red Bull over both teams and the close sporting relationship between them in various aspects.

However, in the next edition of the same competition, RB Leipzig and Red Bull Salzburg were drawn together in Group B to meet competitively for the first time.